Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-05-20

! on earth, and at our call lie will halk our ca
lamities and. mt Just the right time, in the
presence Of an applauding earth and re-
sounding heaven, will raise our dead
He will do it, He is mightier than Herod.
lie is swifter than the storm He is erander
than the sea- He is vaster than eternity
And every sword Of Gods omnipotence will
leap from its scabbard, and all the resources
of iutinity be exhausted, rather than that
Gods child shall not be delivered when he
cries TO him for rescue
Suppose your child was in trouble: how
much would you endure To get him out! You
would 60 through any hardship You would
say: 81 don't care what it will cost. | must
get him out of that trouble"
DO you think God Is not So good q father as
you! Seeing you are in trouble and having
all power, will He not stretch out His arm
and deliver yOul He will He is mighty to
save He can level the mountain and divide
the sea, and can eXtinguish the fire and save
the soul. Not dim of eve not wenk of arm not
feeble of resources, hut with all eternity and
theuniverse at Hisfpet. Go and tell Jesus. Win
yoni Ee whose cheeks are wet with the night
dew of the grave; We who cannot look M; We
whose hearts are dried With the breath of a
sirocco; in the name of the religion of Jesus
Christ, which lifts every burden and wipes
away every tear and delivers every captive.
and ligtens every darkness ] eulplore you
now, go and tell Jesus.
A little child went with her father, a sea
Captain, to sea, and when the first storm
came the little child was very much fright
ened, and in tho night rushed out of the
cabin and said: "Where is father where is
tather| Then they told her: Father is on
deck guiding the vessel and watching the
storm" The little child Immediately re-
turned to Der berth and said: ats
all right, for fathers ON deck. Oh,
we who arc tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains aud down by the
valleys, and at your wits end, want Won to
know the Lord God is guiding the ship Your
Father is on deck He will bring YOU through
the darkness into the harbor. Trust in the
Lord 60 and tell Jesus. Let me say that
ifyou do not, you will have no comfort here,
and you will forever he an outcast and A
wanderer Your death will be a sorrow
Your eternity will be disaster.
But if you go to Him for pardon and sym
pathy, all is well. Everything will brighten
up, and joy will come to the heart and sor
row will depart; your sin will he forgiven
and your foot will touch the upward path
and the shining messengers that report above
what is done here will tell it until the great
arches of God rcsound with the glad tidings,
if now, with contrition and fall trnstful-
ness of soul, you will only go and tell Jesus
But am oppressed, when look over this
audience, at the prospect that some may not
take this counsel and go away unbiessed. |
cannot help asking: What viii he the destiny
of these people! So never care whether it
come into the text or not, / never leave my
place on this platform without telling them
that now is the accepted time, and to some,
perhaps the last time.
Xerxes looked off on his army. There
were two million men-perhaps the finest
army ever marshaled Xerxes rode along
the lines reviewed them, came back, stood on
some high point, looked off upon the two
million men, and hurst into tears. At that
moment, when everybody supposed he would
be in The greatest exutation, he broke down
in grief Thew asked him why he
wepJ. an" he SAID, " weep at
the thought that so soon all this host
will be dead So | stand looking off
upon this host of immortal men and women,
and realize the fact, as perhaps no man can,
unless he has been in similar position that
soon the places which know YOU now will
know you no more, and you will be gone
whittier? whittier! There is a stirring idea
which the poet put in very peculiar verse
when he said:
"'Tis not for man to trife: life is brief,
And sin is here;
Cur age is but falling leaf
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one have we
One, only one;
How sacred should that one life ever be-
That narrow span."